1982 Quasar Console CRT Color Television With CRTs

[@muttBunch]

WOW, this is the exact TV I grew up with lmao. At one point in '85 or '86, something happened to the CRT and if it was off for too long, it would take damn near 3 hours until a picture showed up, though you could still hear audio. Funny thing is, after the 3 hour garbage was discovered, mom and dad left it on 24/7 for almost 14 years straight.

[@OriginalFinnish22]

24/7 for almost 14 years straight. LMAO

[@volvo09]

"personal touch" For dad to really feel like he's dialed in that PERFECT picture no other set can deliver...

[@obsoletebutneat]

That CRT cache is absolutely insane.

[@bro.weaver1282]

Those CRT's, that man may have saved the TV collectors market for a century! Hero!!

[@volvo09]

Pretty crazy collection... I bet they were all good pulls. Mixed with some new or rebuilt ones too... Hope a bunch get to find a home.

[@sirmojo4537]

Crazy collection of crt's. And as long as they didn't go to air they should be fine.

[@danmackintosh6325]

@@sirmojo4537 looked pretty dry in there so most ought to be fine if they were good when stored (except maybe the metal-bell type if any of those)

[@Mrshoujo]

We all want to know if he was allowed to remove them free of charge.

[@senilyDeluxe]

OK I mean this is pretty awesome, but who collects nothing but naked CRTs? If you're a vintage electronics enthusiast, you'll have tons of electronics, circuit boards and spare parts and stuff. If you're a vintage TV collector or repair person, you'll have stacks of old TVs and maybe some VCRs and spare parts and boxes full of remotes, but just naked CRTs with not even a single yoke in sight? WTF man? Simpson's crazy CAT lady just replaced the A with an R...

[@stbagn]

That last part was actually found footage from the future about shango’s house someone bought after he EOL’d.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

Here's something to think of about this set, it's 40 years old. 40 and there's still life in the CRT, the chassis is still working. That someone paid the better part of $500 for it in '82 I'd say they got their money's worth out of it. For ugly plastic and particle board and cheap electronics I wouldn't complain too much. As for that house, holy cow, all those old CRT's and especially the old low deflection ones and small roundtubes, what a score! Totally worth trashing some of your near dead ones to take in a bunch of those. Even if you won't use them it's very likely someone would gladly take them.

[@andygozzo72]

i have a 1965 valve/tube dual standard 405/625 (i'm in the uk) black n white tv that has an excellent emission crt, and it still works , plus a 1968 transistorised one also vgc, .. none have been recapped, the valve/tube one has had to have a new video detector diode fitted, thats it

[@BG101UK]

@@andygozzo72 I have a Ferguson Courier III in the bedroom (BRC 1400 chassis) which sports a CRT with fantastic emission. The picture is lovely and bright and IMO displays a more crisp, punchy and dynamic picture on the 405-line sources than it does on 625. The Pye 48 is the same in that respect. I think the best 405 picture I've seen to date though might just be the Murphy V10A .. it looked great during restoration but does need the recap completing (signal stages) and the newly rewound LOPT fitted. This is single standard 405-line.

[@tomcarlson3913]

That Picture tube hoard is AMAZING. Probably the most I've seen pictured in one place. There were at least 3 different 21AXP22s...Those are treasures if good. The Hoffman branded AXP is count it's fellow survivors on one hand rare.

[@suzakule]

that stash of tubes MUST be saved! give them to the early television museum !

[@DavidBerquist334]

I hope someone who likes old TVs buys the house and takes all the tubes and keep some and goes through them and donate some of the old ones to the museum used ones that are good fixing other TVs and throws away the ones that are no good

[@danmackintosh6325]

Love how that Indian Casino is literally named Morongo, as in "where would a moron go?"

[@Zickcermacity]

Quintessential any-year-in-the 1970s color console TV! Only update was the electronic tuner/channel display. The height of kitsch! I would use it, both as a stand for up to 50 inches of modern OLED, and to play my circa 1980 Atari and Mattel game consoles on, while the flat screen TV on top kept me appraised of the Ukraine situation. Thanks Shango for continuing to provide us something to periodically take our minds off the aforementioned crisis. Phono Nut seems to be laying low the last few weeks

[@iainoggy]

I was sat here bored then boom a vid from Shango now time to sit back watch and wait for the blambulnce

[@mileshigh1321]

OMG that house at the end! There must have been over a 1000 CRT's! I hope they were rescued lol

[@bigsky1970]

My aunt and uncle had this same exact Quasar console TV in their family room in the basement of their split-level home. Worked great back in the day, and it definitely was cable ready. It was the one TV in their house that didn't require a cable box. Wow, the tacked on video at the end with the house full of picture tubes. I was expecting there to be a CRT in the bath tub.

[@danmackintosh6325]

You just reminded me of a fella I used to know who was into banger racing (in the UK, similar to demo derby kinda thing) and his house was a hoard of spare RWD Ford parts There was literally a gearbox in the toilet one time, not just in the room but in the pan!

[@nomebear]

My mother-in-law spent years in a recliner watching a Quasar that looked exactly like this one. It was still working when she passed, and it's probably out in the barn gathering dust.

[@HughTVDX]

I bought a regunned 14" black and white crt (70 degree deflection, 1950's era) back in 1978 with a very dark/blue cathode, still works well today with plenty of emission.

[@capolaya]

"My name is Shango 066 but everybody calls me Shango".

[@shango066]

Crepe erase

[@dstoll7958]

Those Quasars have a Capacitor near that heat sink the Vertical outputs are on in the Horizontal circuit that will dry up and cause the picture to be dark and smear from left to right side of picture.. Changed many out in the mid to late 80's. I think they got to hot and would fail- Was happy to see one of these ugly sets, sold them new. Thanks !

[@WolfgangMahringer]

Wow, THAT is a serious picture bulb collection!

[@levimevis5192]

More than likely the reason why the picture was "shrunk" vertically and the vertical hold control was diddled so much was because the original owners may have thought there was something wrong with the vertical deflection when the TV was showing 16:9 programming (because of the fact that 16:9 programming shows up "letterboxed" on a 4:3 TV) so they were trying to get the screen to "fill out" when there was letterboxed programming on the TV but then when 4:3 programming showed up on the TV screen they had to readjust the vertical. So with that in mind there probably wasn't actually anything wrong with the TV, just someone who didn't understand how modern ATSC programming worked on an older NTSC set.

[@Spottedfeather]

This is beautiful. It looks just like the one my great grandparents had when I was a kid. I have a lot of great memories of watching Wheel Of Fortune with my great grandma in the early 80s.

[@coreybabcock2023]

I did with my grandmother in the 80s 90s in menasha WI

[@CopeCory]

As always, I love your commentary on the personal knob!!! Great vid Shango!

[@marcusdamberger]

Indeed, in British English knob has a whole other meaning.

[@NuGanjaTron]

​@@marcusdamberger PERSONAL KNOB... wasn't that a Depeche Mode song? 🤣 Every PAL-I telly in the UK needs a state of the art, new and improved, Personal Knob[tm] ! Get your PERSONAL KNOB know! Hurry while they last!

[@carlosedwardos]

You have just multiplied the total number of bare CRT's I have seen in my life, by at least 10x 😮

[@CAESARbonds]

This would be perfect in a hobby room. Nice blurry picture, after a beer who cares. And the cabinet is ideal for hiding funny herbs. If it pops one day it is not a to big loss.

[@2packs4sure]

It always amazes me to imagine somebody shopping for a new TV and picking that thing with that cabinet,,, it's like going car shopping in the mid seventies with your hard earned money and driving home in a Matador or a Pacer.....

[@tinicum54]

Or a Chevy Bi-Centennial Vega

[@2packs4sure]

@@tinicum54 Yeah exactly,,,,,,,, WHY ??? lol So many choices.........

[@peterhaan9068]

...or worse yet a Plymouth Valiant! A car so ugly it gave some of the early Brit cars a run for their money!

[@2packs4sure]

@@peterhaan9068 I could go on and on about cars that I can't believe ANYBODY went to the dealer and bought new !! Somebody actually parted their billfold and drove a new 77' Gremlin off the lot ???? YEP !! lol

[@gregjones3660]

Yeah or driving home on a mobility scooter with a pace maker and a ventilator...

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Oh man, 1982, good old times...

[@robinsattahip2376]

Better than now, though Anerica was already in decline.

[@NuGanjaTron]

Best ever! The summer of '82 was magical. It's been downhill ever since...

[@gordonwelcher9598]

There is a type of hoarder that collects as many as he can of some hard to get item. He will never be able to use them all. If someone wants to buy one he will say something like "I have a roundy coming in soon, I need them". He never fixes the items, he never sells them, he just wants to have more and more of them. If something happens to him, the family sends everything to scrap. This may not be the case here. Often this happens with antique classic cars. They are stored outside until they rust away and they are not even good for parts.

[@fredflintstone8048]

I've never seen picture tubes invade a home like that before.

[@cmans79tr7]

Fred - ya, I got a vibe of the original 1958 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Don't go to sleep (let your guard down) for even a minute, or you will become one of them.

[@fredflintstone8048]

@@cmans79tr7 Can you imagine how frightening it might be to go through that home if you didn't know what they were?

[@cmans79tr7]

@@fredflintstone8048 - Yup, I was frightened just *watching* the vid, and I *knew* what they were, ha ha. Imagine if someone called the cops, and a 20-something shows up - radio call : "psshhhtt... HQ... something's going on here....I don't know what it is, but it looks illegal...psshhtt"

[@fredflintstone8048]

@@cmans79tr7 🤣

[@NuGanjaTron]

@@cmans79tr7 It's like that scene from Alien when John Hurt discovers Ze Eggz.

[@Xplasma1]

So, the last Quasar you featured, I talked about how it was "Grandma's TV" and how you couldn't hook your Nintendo to it because Grandma was afraid you'd damage her TV. This Quasar was Grandpa's TV. This Quasar was the TV you found in the home of a man who worked at Chrysler for 35 years, until a robot replaced his job. He was at about retirement age anyway, so he decided to cut his losses. He bought this TV shortly after retiring, and he kept it until the day he died. By the 90's, he was using it as a stand for a newer TV. He never got rid of it because "Well they don't make 'em like this anymore! No they don't make 'em like this anymore. This is gonna be worth something some day! They don't make 'em like this anymore."

[@danmackintosh6325]

Don't leave that game on pause you'll burn the screen!

[@Xplasma1]

@@danmackintosh6325 Yeah I went over that when I commented on the last Quasar. It was a real problem on rear projection TV's.

[@gordonwelcher9598]

I hate it when they finger that vertical hole too much and it's all worn out. Then it can't stop rolling over and over.

[@danmackintosh6325]

@@Xplasma1 I still remember the instruction book specifically noting that my NES was not recommended to be used on front or rear projection TV's. Don't know if it was just my household or whether other's parents/grandparents took that to mean THEIR TV even if it was just a plain-jane 3-gun monolithic bulb...

[@Xplasma1]

@@danmackintosh6325 Exactly. And Grandma thought it applied to her TV as well, thus you were forbidden from hooking any game console to it.

[@RODALCO2007]

Could almost be like a Crossley TV. A horrible pompeus device. A lot of air in that set. Interesting house with all the CRT's at the end.

[@Tron1731]

I remember sitting in front of one of those in my uncles house with the 70s wood furniture with clear plastic on it

[@JPRD2379]

That "Personal Touch" button is to enhance your cigarette nicotine enjoyment while watching your favorite newscast.

[@sirmojo4537]

Flavor Country enhancements.😆😆😆

[@tedrobinson372]

I took the band off one of those B&W tubes years ago and watched it implode. Lucky to have been behind a couch when it let go. I was impressed how the glass shards embedded themselves in the concrete wall.

[@MrNapkino]

Did it instantly explode? Jesus, old crts didn’t fuck around.

[@arfink]

Woohoo scary

[@JasonTHutchinson]

I think the image quality was better for SD broadcasts before it switched to digital. Analog TV actually looked pretty good.

[@MattExzy]

One thing I miss about analog is that if the signal fades, the picture would get snowy/fuzzy - but you'd still have a picture. Digital of course just goes to blocks and freezes. It's maddening trying to use an indoor antenna with digital.. analog could always just be 'good enough' and still work.

[@dougbrowning82]

If you watch KZbin in 480P, 30 FPS, you can get a good idea of how NTSC could look on an excellent signal. The only difference is that 480P is progressive and NTSC was interlaced. 30FPS = 60 fields/second.

[@Fcreceptor]

@@MattExzy radio is the same way. Analog would just fade. Much like shortwave, AM, HF. FM was less forgiving but still worked on weak signals, within reason. All the digital now is “all or nothing”. It is frustrating in certain situations.

[@NuGanjaTron]

SD broadcasts looked a helluva lot better than how they show up here on YT after all that processing. Personally, I find digital compression artefacts more objectionable than noise in an analogue signal.

[@pericels_1]

Fix the TV, then complain it only shows trash and ads. That's peak shango right there :D

[@worldsgreatestride9749]

I worked at the Quasar factory service center in the 80s. You got to watch out on those where it smears to the right. Could be CRT or maybe not. There are caps that filter the B+ source feeding the CRT socket board that go bad and it will smear to the right just like that. Sometime the cap(s) are on the CRT socket board and sometimes on the chassis near the flyback. Scope the power source going to the CRT socket board for horizontal pulses in the DC. If that’s the case the caps are shot. I fixed a lot of them while working at Quasar.

[@JosephLorentzen]

That takes me back when I worked in a local radio and tv shop.

[@canadianradiotvguy1299]

Wow! Good On Him For Saving Those CRT’s! Those Will Save the tube TV Hobby for a while to come

[@redneckbryon]

The type of TV you leave behind in your double wide, when you finally abandon it. I actually took apart a very similar TV in the mid 90s, and no I did not live in a double wide just a very crappy house that should’ve been abandoned, lol

[@ronaldspencer547]

Excellent work. Hopefully you can grab those pictures tubes from that house and stick them in a storage unit or something so you can completely fix all those tvs you have without fear of the picture tube being worn out!

[@DavidBerquist334]

I hope someone who likes working on old TVs buys the house and sorts through the tubes and keep some and sells them and throws away the ones that are no good

[@charlesmurphy1510]

A gold mine of picture tubes!

[@acefeeley9007]

As a beaver, I was looking forward to seeing you work on a nice woody tv. I'm very disappointed with the plastic. I'll be filing a grievance with my union. 😉

[@cjmarsh504]

Yeah, that CRT is pretty much gone to TV heaven

[@randyr.parker2698]

"I swear it just gets dumber everyday" LMAO! Yep, sure does!

[@NuGanjaTron]

It's not '82 anymore... 😕

[@michaelturner4457]

Just the sort of TV style that would go with my old plastic woodgrain Atari games console. Just perfect for playing ET.

[@Shadowfoxxy30]

Hey Shango. a friend and I were playing with a giegercounter and I had suggested seeing how much Xray radiation My 25" 1988 Zenith Custom Series TV put out and we found out in the process that the Red Phosphor is mildly Radioactive. but here's the Kicker Black matrix tubes put out a lot more Radiation than standard Shadow mask tubes because the Phosphor in arranged in straight lines with joining Black lines for a much Higher black level as well as much higher Resolution. rather than the standard grid style lay out of regular shadow masks. or even aperture grill

[@Acein3055]

Love that ending. Perfect music for a pix tube hoarder.

[@agostinodibella9939]

I remember 40 years ago messing with one with the works in the drawer and got shocked which killed the TV. It’s funny thinking back when I used to see these sets in all the stores.

[@nevillewaiting485]

13:22 I had the same years ago, My TV wont switch on mate, its completely dead, The ON / Off switch must be broken, It needs a new one fitting, if I've been told that once, I've been told it a hundred times, I kid you not. I often used to tell the customer I would supply a replacement switch for free, because I kept a large stock of On / Off switches, the dam things were always going wrong, It would be very easy to fit themselves and save them the call out charge, As I recall, not one person ever took me up on my offer, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Right at the top of Mount Stupid, but, as I'm sure you are aware, it takes all sorts to make the World go round (or switch the T.V. on :-) P.S. great KZbin channel, keep it going my friend.

[@acoresbrasil]

Man, I love your humor! Keep it going! 😁😁😁

[@jballew2239]

A casino named "Morongo". "Moron go".. Wow, talk about precise and accurate directed marketing.

[@tedrobinson372]

Just think of all the eyeballs that once stared for hours at all those CRTs. Creepy.

[@nomebear]

National Video Corporation pioneered square color CRTs.

[@richroj]

this is a great video Shango, your commentary is the best always!!

[@n8ux1963]

One of these days this style will be back in demand, like mid century modern. I pray I will have left this mortal coil by then.

[@vancouverman4313]

Respect the skill and the artistry of the craftsman who slaved for hundreds of hours designing the plastic injection molds to make all the fine filigree on those 1980's "Mediterranean" style TV sets.

[@marcusdamberger]

@@vancouverman4313 Thank you for naming the vintage style this set was trying to mimic.

[@v8vrooooom]

This TV has lived long enough to have The View played on it in 2022...I'm not sure what to make of that.

[@sirmojo4537]

Not really. If that poor thing had to listen to Joy Behar and Whoppi Goldberg spouting off their liberal garbage, it would've E.O.L'd itself within five minutes.😂😂😂

[@polska207]

I hate how they went from all wood with envelopes simple styling to plastic monsters but still better then flat screens. Holly crap hope that guy saved as many of those CRTs as he could that where good

[@johnmadow5331]

I brought my 1st color TV on my 1st paycheck in August 1981. It was Sanyo (Sears) 19" that last until 2017 when I trashed it and paid $60.00. for deposition fee. There is no repair or home service like the big screen floor model that popular during the 60 and 70 in America. The floor model TV similar to this one cost between $800.00-1000.00 in 1970 with home service contract that cost about $80.00 a year that consider $2.5K to day dollar value base on gold standard ($37.42 per ounce back in 1968.) Oh I forgot the moving cost for this size of TV to the shop is more than $100.00 plus service estimate fee plus actual cost that added up probably cost more than the set itself.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

That "Personal Touch" knob is the Joe and Hunter BIden exclusive VIP member only feature control.

[@ricknelson947]

Routing out the vertical hold port together. Now that made me laugh. 😂

[@600322]

Very good explanation why old stuffs doesn`t work.

[@pcno2832]

33:36 Last I heard, 4300 W. 47th Street in Chicago was the home of Allied displays, which large displays for commercial and retail venues.

[@vintageradios7790]

What a great find with all those CRTs . I hope you are able to use some of them. Were the ones in the box NOS. ?? I hope so for future use.

[@jamesearl5071]

wow! soft and vivid .. is that the first warm and cold we have on todays tv's lol just got to the dance music .. with visions of dancing a lil ..

[@tectalabyss]

Hi Shango0. I owed a Quasar back in the day. It had a solid wood cabinet and was one heavy thing. Hope to see another Sunday video, when you can. All my very best.

[@ionsimion8792]

I saw the post with the crt's last year on the VTC,that was a score for the guy who grabbed them.

[@wolf_hg]

Shango man, you can't be dropping that at then end of this vid! Holy crap, big smile on my face to say the least! You never know what's hiding around in someones house!

[@mrnmrn1]

Please give us home hints what happened to this amazingly huge CRT collection!

[@DavidBerquist334]

I hope a TV collector buys the house and keeps all the crtc's and just throws away the ones that are bad and uses ourselves the ones that are good

[@NuGanjaTron]

@@DavidBerquist334 More likely he'll keep all CRTs and throw away the house. 😆

[@Linuxpunk81]

The soft and hard joke had me dying 😂

[@sirmojo4537]

Me too. I love Shango's sense of humor. That's what makes his videos more enjoyable than the rest.😆🤟❤️👍

[@marcusdamberger]

His off hand remarks are what keep me coming back!

[@jamespn]

Like Archie Bunker says, adjust the vertizonal.

[@electrofan7180]

Holy molly that CRT house is any TV collector's heaven. I hope all those CRTs will go to someone who can sort, test, pack and sell them.

[@DavidBerquist334]

I hope that somebody that likes older TVs buys the house and sorts through the tubes and keeps them and sells the ones and throws away the ones that are

[@richardayres7958]

Oh looking good to a spectacular EOL on that set!

[@DesertRainReads]

This looks similar to one my grandparents on my dad's side used to have when I was growing up. The only difference was the buttons were rounded on the console, and the power button was blue in the middle of it.

[@idr3aming_inc]

I can't believe those tv still exist untill now, that's really antique and unique

[@Torogol85]

This Quasar TV is great for a spectacular EOL video!

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

1:46 personal touch knob go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@channelsixtysix066]

_"But It's Another One Of These"_ - Add that to the flat tone of 066's voice and that pretty much sums up this television's act. 00:18 About as welcome as a fart in an elevator.

[@cairsahrstjoseph996]

Looks similar to what my uncle had from the early '80's; in fact it may be the same model. First experience with Atari 2600 on it. Takes me way back! But I'm pretty sure that one was wood.

[@cmans79tr7]

14:00- Aaaahhh, just like the good-old days!

[@dontknowbrian]

Another fine set from Phillip Morris! Mmmm full flavor.

[@Tall_Order]

When looking at the thumbnail I was hoping this was wood. I miss giant wooden tv consoles. Just not cheaply made ones. I don't like pressed wood or plastic. If I ever find one with a broken TV in it I may just hollow it out and put a modern roku TV in it. But when it comes to style I want something really old, like 40s or 50s with the old style of speaker cloth from that time. I have some Realistic Maximus speakers like that.

[@jubsy]

Played the first PS1 Resident Evil on a TV like that when it was new. Perfect aesthetic for it.

[@WinSchutten]

Hah, I clicked on it because I loved how this look. Especially because it is quintessential 80s.

[@rEdf196]

I remember that famous iconic Works in the Door "Quasaaaar "!!! music bit, similar to the modern day KUDO.

[@TechGorilla1987]

@34:51 - How does one 'dispose' of a picture bulb? I have a modern 2" that I need to make gone.

[@whiskerlesswalrus]

I like the comment about the vertical size and a bad picture tube-when I was in school my teacher used to tell us when he would go to the house to fix the set and there would be nothing wrong with the picture but the lady of the house would say she did not like it he would use the vertical hold control to slowly roll the picture and ask the lady as the picture was rolling slowly if she liked that picture better and to tell him to stop when she liked the picture that came into view

[@80fordmustang6]

I come for the tv I stay for the commentary and vertical hold glory hole lol

[@arienhaddock8392]

Yeah thats the old Quasar logo.....those darn purple panasonic capacitors. I have a panasonic built top loader that has about 200 of them built in 1980. Been replacing them as I go or notice a problem. Yeah, I remember doing calls and customers would say "i think i need a new picture tube" when the vertical collapsed. I used to fix them in home, had the IC caps and resistors on me for most direct view and projection on my truck. I dont think I have seen an old panny for repair like this one since the late 2000's.

[@Internutt2023]

Besides Chicago being "Hog Butcher for the World" , we apparently supplied a good part of the US with televisions and associated parts. Matsushita /Quasar was in the nearby suburbs as was Zenith ( picture tube factory, and also a few other plants within Chicago itself), and that one reman tube was also made in the city as well. seems that whole industry, along with B&K Precision / Dynascan / Cobra, and a few other test equipment manufacturers are also all long gone.

[@imacg5658]

“I’m sorry, your house is infested with CRTs” Like my GOD they’re EVERYWHERE. I guess Shango has several replacement tubes now…

[@luvradios]

That old Quasar was big enough to accommodate the top load Quasar vcr you would’ve been buying in 83 lol.

[@pcno2832]

It amazes me that the made so many of those 1980s consoles with so much dead air and no attempt to make use of the space just when people were stacking up cable boxes, VCRs, tapes, etc. I don't know what they were thinking.

[@TechGorilla1987]

It's Friday night and I'm looking to take a tour of "Flavor Country." Let's roll.

[@stun3282]

That is such a beautiful set

[@michaelcalvin42]

That CRT hoard at the end... I've never seen so many CRTs in one place in my life. Thanks for sharing that with us.

[@MikesArcadeMonitorRepair]

MatsuSHITa, lol. This chassis reminds me heavily of the Wells Gardner K4600 arcade monitor that is just a modified television chassis for use in arcade games to run at 15khz RGB. Especially with the screen control on the neckboard.

[@directcurrent5751]

Does this cache of CRTs resolve the CRT Crisis of our time ?

[@GoIdenApple]

I was convinced you were going to blow that TV up at the end.

[@1marcelfilms]

I love those. The fake wood looks ok on that one

[@billybassman21]

The lack of vertical deflection happened to our 1976 Wards TV when I was a little around 1980. I remember two bIack dudes showing up around 10 at night to fix it. This style TV was very common in the early 80s and was pretty much gone by the late 80s in favor of the more modern, compact TV designs. Cable ready was great till they started scrambling the premium channels instead of using notch filters. I remember our neighbor getting the premium channels without a cable box.

[@rickrandom716]

Watching live tv it reminds me to the 2006 movie Idiocracy!

[@deepblueskyshine]

I'm not much younger and I remember during my childhood how appreciated and highly valued by parents' and grandparends' generations were wine glasses and other table utensils, chandoliers etc. made of lead cristall glass. As far as I remember, picture tubes are made of very high lead content glass - about 20% (except Tektronix's ceramic electrostatically deflected scope CRTs) and the only other glass product that has higher lead content are screens of the sealed chambers used to work on radioactive materials - around 30%. I think CRT's glass is properly recycled, but aren't there craftsmen that can repurpose them without melting? I doubt that after scraping carbon cover out of the bell it would be optically acceptable for a fish tank, but i.e. lighting fixtures might even benefit from this.